Table 2.

A sampling of neuroimaging meta analyses

Authors	Year	Method	Psychological focus
Cognitive control/executive function
Chein et al.	2002	Density (Gaussian)	Verbal working memory
Wager et al.	2003	Clustering of peaks, chi-square	Working memory
Wager et al.	2004	KDA, spatial MANOVA	Attention/task switching
Buchsbaum et al.	2005	ALE	Wisconsin card sorting
Chein and Schneider	2005	Density (Gaussian)	Practice effects in cognitive control
Laird et al.	2005	ALE	Stroop interference
Neumann et al.	2005	ALE, co-activation “replicator dynamics”	Stroop interference
Costafreda et al.	2006	Spatial location	Verbal fluency in left IFG
Gilbert et al.	2006	Spatial location/Chi-square/classifier	Episodic memory, multitasking mentalizing in BA 10
Nee et al.	2007	KDA, logistic regression	Cognitive control/interference
Van Snellenberg and Wager	in pressa	MKDA/KDA	Cognitive control and memory
Emotion and motivation
Phan et al.	2002	Chi-square within regions	Emotion
Murphy et al.	2003	Spatial location (K–S test)	Emotion
Wager et al.	2003	KDA, Chi-square	Emotion
Kringelbach and Rolls	2004	Spatial location	Reinforcers in OFC
Phan et al.	2004	Qualitative	Emotion
Baas et al.	2004	Chi-square	Amygdala lateralization
Northoff et al.	2006	Clustering of peaks	Self-referential processes
Krain et al.	2006	ALE	Decision-making
Wager et al.	2008	MKDA, Chi-square	Emotion
Kober et al.	2008a	MKDA, co-activation	Emotion
Disorder
Zakzanis et al.	2000	Effect sizes	Schizophrenia
Zakzanis et al.	2003	Effect sizes	Alzheimer's disease
Whiteside et al.	2004	Effect sizes	Obsessive–compulsive disorder
Glahn et al.	2005	ALE	Working memory in schizophrenia
Fitzgerald et al.	2006	ALE	Depression, DLPFC
Dickstein et al.	2006	ALE	ADHD
Van Snellenberg et al.	2006	Effect sizes	Schizophrenia and working memory
Steele et al.	2007	Spatial location (“unwarped”)	Depression, frontal cortex
Valera et al.	2007	Effect sizes	Brain structure in ADHD
Etkin and Wager	2007	MKDA, Co-activation	Anxiety disorder
Hoekert et al.	2007	Effect sizes	Emotional prosody in schizophrenia
Language
Turkeltaub et al.	2002	ALE	Single-word reading
Jobard et al.	2003	Clustering of peaks	Word reading
Brown et al.	2005	ALE	Speech production
Vigneau et al.	2006	Clustering peaks	Language, left cortical hemisphere
Ferstl et al.	2008	ALE, Co-activation “replicator dynamics”	Text comprehension
Others
Joseph	2001	Spatial location	Object recognition: category specificity
Grèzes and Decety	2001	Qualitative	Action
Kosslyn and Thompson	2003	Logistic regression	Visual imagery
Nielsen et al.	2004	Kernel density/multivariate	Cognitive function
Gottfried and Zald	2005	Spatial location	Olfaction in OFC
Nickel and Seitz	2005	Clustering of peaks	Parietal cortex
Petacchi et al.	2005	ALE	Auditory function, cerebellum
Lewis	2006	Average maps in CARET	Tool use
Postuma and Dagher	2006	Co-activation	Basal ganglia
Zacks	2008		Mental rotation

A sample of published neuroimaging meta-analyses. See text for abbreviations.

^aResults discussed in relative detail in this paper.